So I've been rolling back to play some older games, one of them being Quake III. I have found some severs with players but most of the players are in the spectators group. Why is this? Usually there are only 4-6 players actually playing, and the other 20 are spectating. Why don't people play? :c

Are you sure they were not all bots? The only other thing I can think of is they were all chatting (with a head set in a chat server) and watching the game.